Example sentences of "have reached the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I live , and I certainly am intending doing , until the twenty seventh of August of this year , I shall have reached the ripe old age of seventy five . |
| 2 | While Basquiat may have reached the Metropolitan and music television , the exhibition 's tour after the Whitney run seems far less promising . |
| 3 | Mr. Gardiner argued that Walton J. erred in a number of respects although he may have reached the right answer by the wrong route . |
| 4 | Despite the fact that air travel and the new-fangled wireless were in their infancy and television still in the experimental stages , the news must have reached the far corners of the Salvation Army empire eventually . |
| 5 | Had we had competent referees/linesman this season we would be up about 6 points … we would also probably have reached the mini-league stage last year cos Strach 's goal at Ibrox was another good goal in a very similar position to Rocky 's on Saturday . |
| 6 | This means that ( during reading aloud ) before a word reaches the response buffer , subsequent words must have reached the cognitive system — this being the only way that their semantic and syntactic features could come into play . |
| 7 | There are , however , no tigers in Sri Lanka , so they must have reached the southern tip of India when the land bridge to that island had disappeared and the sea gap become too wide for even a tiger to swim across . |
| 8 | At this point Francis must have had about 20 seconds to live , a few more steps and he would have reached the other end which , for him , was the threshold of death . |
| 9 | They might even have reached the legal officer , Mr. Tony Child . |
| 10 | I have no doubt he would have reached the very top . |
| 11 | However , only a minority of adolescents will have reached the ego-identity achievement stage at the age when most pupils have to make crucial decisions about subject choice at school . |
| 12 | More boys and girls will have reached the ego-identity achievement stage and a proportion of these will go into science . |